Take Action to Help Hens in Arizona
You can make a difference
In 2022, the State of Arizona approved rules to ban cages for egg-laying hens in the state and mandate that all eggs produced and sold in the state are cage-free by 2025. When phased in, this measure will ensure that millions of birds will be spared the misery of cage confinement.
Recently, this important policy came under attack by an out-of-state lobbying group. But thanks to hundreds of Arizona residents who sent messages to the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council, we were able to preserve this vital regulation for egg-laying hens!
If you live in Arizona and took action, thank you! Your voice helped keep these sensitive animals out of cages!
A LIFE OF CONFINEMENT
After successfully banning them in 2022, eggs sold in Arizona could once again come from industrial factory farms that confine hens in extraordinarily small spaces, often in barren wire cages. A hen confined in such a manner suffers from extreme pain, psychological stress from overcrowding, and even feather-pecking and cannibalism by other hens. The practice of confining these animals in such abysmal conditions is motivated by profit, not animal welfare.
EXTREME SUFFERING
Hens raised in battery cages (i.e., the vast majority of hens in the egg industry presently) live their entire lives in a space no larger than the surface of an iPad; they are unable to engage in any natural behaviors like flapping their wings, walking, perching, dustbathing, or laying eggs in nest boxes. The physical and psychological torment caused by these conditions is obvious to anyone, and animal welfare experts agree.
NECESSARY CHANGE
You have an opportunity to spare millions of birds from suffering! If you live in Arizona, please reach out to your state officials today using the form above, and ask them to protect the important state rule banning the cruel caging of hens.
CAGES ARE NEVER HUMANE
If you’d like to learn more about why cages of any size are so problematic, check out Animal Equality’s recent investigation of a major egg producer that is using so-called “enriched” cages. You’ll see why commercial cages of any kind can never be humane.
Photo credit: Andrew Skowon/Open Cages
“The egg industry is trying to undo the progress we've made for hens in Arizona. Please take action today to ensure hens freed from cages are not forced to go back into cruel confinement.”
Sarah Hanneken
Legal Advocacy Counsel, Animal Equality